Lundin Mining

Lobbying
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member for all geographies.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses its process for engaging with stakeholder groups.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts, reports progress against all the targets it has set, and provides evidence of linking senior executives’ remuneration policies to the company’s sustainability targets and objectives.

GHG emissions
The company reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions. The company reports progress against these scope 1 and 2 targets.

Key areas and species
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Solid and air pollution
The company discloses the proportion of hazardous waste directed to and diverted from disposal. The company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants.

Water
The company reports the proportion of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company reports a decrease in water pollution and discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company discloses that it respects the rights, interests, culture and traditions of all stakeholders where it operates, including the rights of indigenous peoples.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company discloses a policy that it does not tolerate threats, intimidation, or attacks against human rights defenders.

Act ethically
The company has a publicly available policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, ensuring no illegal payments are made using corporate funds or positions for unlawful purposes. It maintains a clear stance against direct or indirect political contributions. Additionally, it offers various confidential channels for raising concerns about bribery and corruption, including a website, postal address, and toll-free telephone numbers, managed by an independent service provider. Stakeholders can report issues anonymously or identify themselves, with assurances of confidentiality and protection from retaliation for reporting in good faith.

Provide and promote decent work
The company commits to respecting worker health and safety, with a publicly available policy and extends these expectations to its business relationships. It has established a goal to sustain a minimum of 30% female representation in management and on the board, with current figures showing 37.5% of board members are women. The company also enforces health and safety standards across all employees and contractors.

Respect human rights
The company commits to international human rights standards as outlined in the International Bill for Human Rights and the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. This commitment extends to all employees, including senior management and contractors, and is upheld against forced labour, child labour, and discrimination. Their policies support worker rights to collective bargaining and freedom of association. They engage in extensive stakeholder consultations during Human Rights Risk and Impact Assessments, incorporating third-party insights to address potential impacts on communities and labour practices. These assessments include broad-ranging reviews covering labour matters, environmental impacts, and business relationships.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets, as well as potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company has set some targets, it does not disclose group-wide targets on all key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. The company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

GHG emissions
The company has an opportunity to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, set a time-bound target to reduce it, and report against the target. The company has an opportunity to align its targets to a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Key areas and species
The company does not disclose the locations of its suppliers that are in or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity. The company discloses that it has found seven critically endangered and twenty-two endangered species, which are defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List and national conservation lists, in the region where it has operations or projects. However, no evidence found that the company discloses the status of all species found in and adjacent to its own locations according to national and international conservation lists, regardless of the global extinction risk status. The company does not disclose species populations existing in or adjacent to the locations of its suppliers.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Solid and air pollution
The company discloses quantitative increase in its hazardous and non- hazardous waste. The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

Water
The company reports an increase in water use. The company does not disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company does not regularly report on water pollution metrics, nor targets to reduce water pollution. The company has an opportunity to publicly commit to the right to water and to provide its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not disclose its processes to identify and recognise the rights of Indigenous Peoples when activities in its own operations may impact their rights, and describes how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights as set out in the relevant part(s) of the VGGT’s or the IFC Performance Standards. The company does not require its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rights holders, and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
No evidence found that the company tracks its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities, or that it has a commitment to respect the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

Act ethically
The company has a zero-tolerance policy for bribery and corruption and expects its suppliers to prohibit bribery, yet it lacks a comprehensive process to identify specific bribery and corruption risks in its operations. Additionally, there is an absence of clear consequences for non-compliance in its supplier relationships. The company also does not provide a policy on lobbying and political engagement, nor does it disclose expenditures on lobbying or require compliance from third-party lobbyists. The company has an opportunity to formalise processes for identifying bribery risks and to establish transparent policies and compliance requirements for lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company provides detailed quantitative health and safety data including fatalities and injuries, but lacks information on the main types of work-related injuries and does not monitor health and safety performance among its business relationships. It discloses practices to ensure fair compensation but does not confirm if this aligns with a living wage or set a time-bound target for achieving this across all regions it operates. While it has initiatives aimed at promoting women in management and supporting women-led enterprises, there is no broader public commitment to women’s empowerment or detailed gender pay equality data disclosed. The company has an opportunity to enhance transparency on health and safety monitoring in its supply chain, define and commit to a living wage, and strengthen its public commitment to comprehensive gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Respect human rights
The company engages in stakeholder consultations and has conducted Human Rights Risk and Impact Assessments in specific locations. Despite this, the company has an opportunity to detail its methodologies for assessing human rights risks and to transparently share the findings, including its considered salient human rights issues, thus enhancing its accountability and responsiveness to identified risks.